Bram Stokers Dracula Club....Welcome to the Carpathians

Put some money down on one a couple of days ago.
Going to pick it up this weekend!
Can't wait!

Sounds like a power issue to your solenoid circuit.
Check for a bad connection on the board or somewhere down the harness? My guess would be that something is loose and making intermittent contact. The schematics will help you figure out what connectors and wires to inspect.
Also run a solenoid test and see if they work in test after they've stopped working in game.
Don't rule out a poor fuse holder. It could be anything.
If not a bad connection, then I would move to the power driver board.
Good luck

Wow. That's pretty dramatic.

I posted this in a separate thread, but not having much luck... maybe one of you good people can help me?

I picked up a player copy of BSD. Plays great and most issues are only cosmetic, but I did want to repair the two multiplier inserts by the flippers (2X & 3X).

If anyone has the ability to scan these, or even take a really good quality top-down photo of them for me, I would really appreciate it. The font seems impossible to nail down so a scan or photo is my best bet.

Thanks in advance!

Sweetness!!!
Thank you Robert!

Ill pull these as soon as I get home.

Adriano

Thanks.
This is just my "player" copy so I want to clean it up as I'll be selling it soon.

Big thanks to MrSanRamon for providing those insert shots last week. I was able to fashion something decent to create a temporary fix for my player copy of BSD. Sadly, it was sold a couple of days ago, so I am officially out of the club temporarily while I await a nicer copy.

Here are some pics.

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Also, this BSD had a really poor botched attempt at re-applying the reds. Someone actually used brushed on acrylics!
I found some special acrylic pens a while back that blend beautifully with no streaks or lines... and they come in various thicknesses. I was able to do a reasonable correction and still keep the cost of the machine down for the next guy... who seems pretty happy with it overall.

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Guys,
I have a set of decals for this game.
I got them a while back from some dude in Europe. They seem to be of good quality but most certainly not licensed. I don't need them any longer and will happily let them go if anyone wants them.
My cost was $300 to get them.

I'll also be at expo next month of shipping is an issue.
PM me if interested.

Can I get back into the club?

Sold my original BSD a few months back and just got this beauty.
I was missing it. Glad to have one back.

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You don't use the bigger one. See below.

They are reproduced and sold here: http://www.pinballcenter.eu/catalog/extra-prototype-slingshot-plastics-forbram-strokers-dracula-p-1604.html?language=english

Only the lower sling posts are used. Remove the nut, thread the female end of a 1" hex spacer onto the post and save the nut for the new plastic.

The extra holes on the proto plastics require that you add an additional post location. If you look closely at the original sling plastics, you will see there is an unused hole in both. This was originally meant to hold an extra spacer.

Just take a new 1" hex post and attach it on top of the sling plastic by threading a machine screw through the hole from underneath to hold it in place. Now you will have two posts in the appropriate place for the holes on the proto plastics. The top posts on the original slings are not used at all.

Go to page 6 of this thread. Someone posted very detailed photos on what this looks like.

I never removed the lower sling to install these, so I did not align them face-to-face to check if they lined up perfectly. In any case, there was enough play with the 1" spacers to make it work and I didn't experience any difficulty with the fit. Check the close-ups on pg6 to see if they look like the ones you had.

And yes, I got them from that link.

Not sure exactly what you're describing. Can you post a pic? Which piece of hardware has fallen off?

If it's just the latch at the back, I'd say use the through-hole inside the head. It's meant for a bolt with a large wing head and will lock the head an body together... like older style games. Operators used to use these all the time to keep people from tampering with the latches. If you don't have a wing-bolt, use a regular bolt with large washers.

A more 'ghetto' approach would be to get a metal plate from Home Depot in the cabinet hardware section. Just a flat plate with screw holes on both ends that's longer than 4"-5". Place it on the back of the game spanning the head and body and screw it down. Obvioulsy this will cause damage, but it sounds like that ship has sailed.

But, if it's the actual bottom plywood that is crumbling, you have bigger issues and need to get that rebuilt/reinforced somehow.

I was pretty fortunate. The BSD I picked up last month had a wonky gate that I was able to repair... but when I looked in the coinbox, the OP that owned it originally had left a NOS replacement... along with a few plastics too!

This gate takes a beating and is easily bent out of alignment. Happy to have the backup!

powdercoat is ultimately going to be more durable

Any talented sculptors out there?

I've been trying to make a new coffin for my BSD using a MacFarlane figure set.
I've been able to modify the toy as much as possible but really need someone with some skill to help create the 'busting out of the crate' effect.
For those familiar with the movie, this is a far more realisitc representation. Dracula would travel to England and back in these crates filled with Transylvanian soil.

Hoping to find someone who can help me finish this and maybe take a mold so other BSD owners can enjoy it too.

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Here's the fit in-game before I started carving up the crates.

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Thanks!
Hope I can get it done.

Again, if amyone can recommend a good sculptor I'd love to work with someone to get this off the ground. I can probably pull something off myself if I had to, but would like it done right.

Thanks.
Already tried Matt.
Although he seemed very positive about helping me out with this coffin mod (and another small thing I needed for a custom pin project) I've only had one reply from him and he seems really tied up.